EPA proposed extending worker protection deadlines for two hazardous industrial chemicals, continuing a pattern of postponing key decisions on Biden-era chemical regulations.
While avoiding outright rollbacks as the agency navigates industry pushback and various legal challenges, the proposal would delay deadlines by which manufacturers must begin monitoring worker exposure to perchloroethylene and carbon tetrachloride.
Under the proposed rule, workplaces would have another year until being required to monitor air levels of PCE and CTC and implement other workplace provisions of the Biden administration’s final risk management rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
EPA said the proposal would extend deadlines while the agency works to revise the rules to ensure they are “practical and implementable,” a news release says, which it also stressed the proposal “does not weaken any existing protections.”
